The grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, is suing Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta for £200,000 over a story about declassified secret documents reportedly signed by Stalin, which ordered the execution of Soviet citizens....
The Supreme Court in Moscow has ordered a new investigation into the murder of Novaya gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya. The outspoken critic of Russia's actions in Chechnya was murdered in October 2006. Read more here
Sri Lankan journalist JS Tissainayagam has been sentenced to 20 years hard labout by a Colombo court after he was found guilty of causing "racial hatred". Tissainayagam had been critical of the government's conduct in the war against the Tamil...
Pablo Pasillas Fong, the lead federal investigator in the case of journalist murdered journalist Armando Rodríguez has been killed. He is the second investigator to be murdered in the past month. Fong was shot 13 times on 26 August in the streets...
Editor-in-chief, Fred M'membe and the entire editorial staff of Zambia’s The Post have been summoned to appear in the dock after they published an article critical of the "pornography" charges brought against their colleague, news-editor Chansa...
Madonna was booed by thousands of fans when she spoke against "discrimination of Romanies and Gypsies in Eastern Europe" during a concert in Romania. She paused during her show and said: "It made me feel very sad." Thousands in the crowd of 60,000...
Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez sent a media reform bill to Congress that would allocate a third of broadcast frequencies to private companies, a third to state broadcasters and the rest to non-profit organizations such as churches and...
Stella Estremera, editor-in-chief and Virginia Agtay, news editor of the Sun Star Davao have both received death threats in the Philippines. The threats which came in the form of text messages warned that “a single bullet would be enough for you...
A play which looks at the war in Iraq from three different viewpoints has won the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. Palace of the End by Judith Thompson was described by the human rights organisation as "a truly formidable piece of...
Photojournalist Marc Vallée has been criticising Climate Camp’s handling saying on his blog he was forced to wear a “media badge”, and that his request for a copy of the code of conduct for journalists was refused. He argued that the camp’s policy...